US President Donald Trump announced Monday that the US military carried out another targeted strike on a Venezuelan boat allegedly transporting drugs, killing three men aboard.

The action comes two weeks after an initial strike on a Venezuelan speedboat allegedly engaged in drug-trafficking activity. Trump defended the strikes as a step necessary to curb narcotics transportation into the US. He wrote in an online post:

These extremely violent drug trafficking cartels POSE A THREAT to U.S. National Security, Foreign Policy, and vital U.S. Interests…No U.S. Forces were harmed in this Strike…The illicit activities by these cartels have wrought DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES ON AMERICAN COMMUNITIES FOR DECADES, killing millions of American Citizens.

US leaders specifically alleged that the fi

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